My 5 Monkeys

IMM-- Mixed Bag

2012-01-29T01:00:00.000-08:00

Queen of Kentucky Book Review

2012-01-27T09:35:00.000-08:00

Ricki Jo wants someone else when she starts her freshman year. She lives on a farm and best friends with Luke. She wants to be known as Ericka . While during her first couple days of school , she finds and wants to be apart of the popular girls. She get the attention of Wolf. She tries for the cheer squad , and decides that she doesn't want to friends with her friend from 4-H as much. While

Cover Lust --New Books 2012

2012-01-25T10:00:00.000-08:00

Aren't these all beautiful covers. These books are on my to Read pile .

Everneath Book Review

2012-01-24T05:00:00.000-08:00

Nikki Beckett has been in the underworld or Everneath for 6 months , and finally comes back again to say good by to her family. She lives in Park City with her dad and her brother Tommy. Her mom was killed in a car accident. Her father is also the mayor of this town. She has been thinking about Jack who she loves and used to date. She wants things to her life to be normal , but that isn't

First You Try Everything Book Review

2012-01-23T21:00:00.000-08:00

Evvie and Ben are a couple who are slowly growing apart. Evvie is more crunchy and isn't completely right in the head. She is doing a documentary on a worker in a store. Ben has fallen out of love with Evvie , but has been seeing someone new. He wants to be more to her , but he is still married to Evvie. Evvie decides to try something drastic to get Ben's attention which has consequences for

IMM-- Surprise

2012-01-21T18:00:00.000-08:00

Thanks to Penguin for the book. I also think that its was universes way for me to read the book again. I gave the book onto the next person , so I was surprised to see this in my mailbox. I hope that my friend Karen is having fun at ALAMW12 . I got a peek at her stash and I was drooling over her stash.

Hallowed Book Review

2012-01-19T14:00:00.000-08:00

Clara has already saved Tucker from the fire. She wants to make sure of her mission/purpose. Angela, Jeffery, Christian form the Angel club and that means that they talk about it one place. I liked that this reminded me of Fight Club but there are secrets still. Clara is having visions again and its disturbing for her . She wants to figure out her purpose in life. She is also still in love

Incarnate Book Review

2012-01-17T22:00:00.000-08:00

Ana is a no soul and the only on of its kind. She has had a tough life being raised by the abusive Li, who has been on her own since her lover Meneham left. She is asked to leave by Li and has a bad compass. She gets attacked by sylph and jumps into water. She gets rescued by a mountain man named Sam. Little does she know that Sam is her favorite music artist. Ana has very few likes of that of

Tempting Tuesday #3

2012-01-17T02:00:00.000-08:00

1. Catcher and Ethan share some personality traits. What makes Mallory, Merit, and even us readers attracted to these guys? Would you date/mate with someone like these guys in real life? Well they are real jerks sometimes , but they have a heart of gold underneath all that machoness. 2. In Chapter 9 we learn of another murder. Do you see any patterns with the previous murder and Merit's

Blogging Confession #2-- Reading Slumps

2012-01-16T00:00:00.000-08:00

Have you ever had reading/blogging slumps? How do you work through them or work around them? Funny that this should be the question of the week. I am in slump right now. I am trying to read review books, and trying to enjoy them. My last book reviews for the books have been less than stellar. I think that maybe I am being to critical about the books, or maybe I can't believe all that has been

IMM -- Harper Edition& 1 Daw Alien Book

2012-01-14T11:00:00.000-08:00

Thanks Harper Teen for the books. Glimmer The Calling--2nd book in series Social Suicide--2nd book in series Thanks Harper and Daw --Happy Dance for this book The Selection

TGIF-- Reading Pile 2012

2012-01-13T11:13:00.000-08:00

There are all the books in my To Read pile for this year. Many of them are parts of series , and ending of a series. These are my Must Reads ...what are some of yours

Tempting Tuesday --Week 2

2012-01-10T12:00:00.000-08:00

Tina at Tina's Book Reviews, Rummanah at Books in the Spotlight, Missie at The Unread Reader, and Jenny at Supernatural Snark are hosting the Tempting Tuesday's Some Girls Bite Read- Along. This is for the book Some Girls Bite by Chloe Neill which is the first one in the Chicagoland Vampires . This started January 3rd and is running every Tuesday through January 31st.Here's the schedule: January

Fracture Book Review

2012-01-10T07:09:00.000-08:00

What would you do if you had 1 day left to live ?? Delaney Maxwell was with her friend Dexter and fell into the icy water. She should have died in those 11 minutes , but she didn't . All those things that would have happened like more severe brain damage or not being able to walk or even talk. Delaney alive now starts to feel the pull of something otherworldly , and she is starting to see

Archon & Born Wicked -- DNF

2012-01-08T08:36:00.000-08:00

Angela has been trying to kill herself in many different ways. She is also searching for her brother . She is blood head and goes to school with witches, demons, jinns and has dreams about angels. I read about 200 pages and trying to figure out who was good or bad. I understand that there was Books of Raziel and someone is going to become the something special and end something. Who ever it is

IN My Mailbox -1:08 of your time

2012-01-07T06:00:00.000-08:00

Under the Never Sky Book review

2012-01-06T05:30:00.000-08:00

Aria is a pod dweller and is able to visit many different realms.Its like a virtual world and things are real there. Her mother is a scientist in another part of the world. Her mother loves for her sing songs . Peregrine is a blood warrior who can smell tempers and other feelings , he also see really well at night time. Perry is rendered to his nephew Talon , who he cares for. Perry doesn't

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight Review

2012-01-04T13:00:00.000-08:00

Hadley is upset because she has to go to her dad's wedding in England. She misses her her plane by four minutes. Her life is changed in those minutes. She meets someone who also traveling to England too. Oliver is British and a student and he is flying back home to take care of some business. During this plane ride and while talking with the Oliver, she finds her out look changing for the good

Book Blogger Confessions #1

2012-01-02T10:33:00.000-08:00

How has the "job" of book blogging changed your reading habits? Both pro and con. Yes I have been introduced to many new authors which I grew to love and want to read on with the series. I have found that I look at books more critically , and don't always read the book. I love that I found more book sharing blogging friends, and I tend to go buy their reviews of books and then I might read it

Dreaming Of Mr. Darcy Book Review

2012-01-02T04:00:00.000-08:00

Kay is unhappy in her job. She gets some extra money and leaves town and opens a Bed and Breakfast. She has been working on book called the The Illustrated Mr. Darcy. Adam also lives in the same town and also a screenwriter. His movie of Persuasion by Jane Austen will be town filming. That's when all the comedy begins. The cast decides to stay at Kay's Bed and Breakfast while they are filming

Happy New Year

2011-12-31T14:29:00.000-08:00

This year has been good for the family and for me. I have read some really awesome books , and still have some wonderful relationships with some local bloggers and some that are still very far away. Highlights- Reading Divergent Alien in the Family Lola and the boy next door Armchair BEA -- Karen getting my books :) Breaking my wrist Having all kids now in school this coming next semester Got a

A Promise of Safekeeping --Book Review

2011-12-29T14:47:00.000-08:00

Lauren Matthews sent the wrong man to jail, and she wants to make amends to Arlen the man who spent nine years in jail. Of course Arlen doesn't want to see her at all, so she befriends his friend Will. Lauren and Will slowly get to know each other over the time , and they both have secrets and can both read people. Lauren and Will both struggle with mistakes, regret , and forgiveness. I love

Cinder Book Review

2011-12-29T10:31:00.000-08:00

Cinder is a cyborg and a mechanic working in New Beijing. Kai the prince comes to her shop asking her to fix a robot that is special to him. Cinder is also wanting to run away from her step mother. There is some sort of plague that is killing off robots. Cinder doesn't really remember much of her life before an accident. Cinder also loses someone very dear to her, but unable to cry. I loved

Team Tris --Round 3

2011-12-27T00:00:00.000-08:00

Hello again its Julie from My 5 Monkeys and here to advocate for Tris and all of her awesomeness. About Her I found Tris to be one of the strongest female characters in YA this year. She's a normal girl who is petite with blond hair and bites her nails but she has an inner strength that kept her alive during her Dauntless initiation. She grew up in the Abnegation Faction - The Selfless but has

Need you Now Book Review

2011-12-24T08:00:00.000-08:00

Abe Cushman, the evil genius behind a sixty-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme, has killed himself and taken his secrets to the grave. For Patrick Lloyd, a young Wall Street advisor at the world's largest Swiss bank, Cushman's fall has unexpected-and deadly-repercussions. His girlfriend, Lilly, is directly tied to billions of dollars in losses suffered by Cushman's most dangerous "victims," a group